At least the working title of the new show has been released. Nothing is known except that it will continue the Stargate franchise, be set in the "present" of the franchise, involve a team travelling through stargates, and that the erstwhile ninth chevron will be used somehow.
Mark
Posted by Johnny (Member # 878) on :
They're being very cryptic. They make it sound like it'll be set in the present day(since they rule out a prequel or the future), but if that's true then there can only be so many alternatives to the current series settings. To me, the first thing that sprang to mind would be a group of humans in a far flung part of the universe who are either on an extended mission, or can't get home, but that would immediately draw parallels with Voyager and Atlantis.
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
Or time travel.
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
Since it's been said that Continuum sets up the new series, I think we can determine what the new series is about based on what we know of Continuum.
Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
...And since continuum seems to be based off of time travel and/or alternate dimensions, it's a fair bet that the ninth chevron has something to do with that.
Mark
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
Well, if the SGC learns how to use the ninth chevron then you know that the only way for there to be things going on that are interesting, everyone else in the universe has to simultaneously figure it out too.
Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
Oh, I dunno... Through "Bad Guys" in the final season, they were STILL running up against worlds that had no idea that the Big Stone Ring in their museum was really an interstallar transport device. The galaxy has become a lot more crowded since the days of Ra subjugating a few thousand people on a desert planet, but there are literally MILLIONS of gates in this galaxy alone (the galaxy has well over 200 billion stars, and today's science strongly suggests that MOST of them have planets of some sort aroudn them). Still space for all sorts of adventures, I'd say.
Mark
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
That's the problem - the "galaxy" gets too familiar to the writers and viewers and they think that 100 planets = overcrowding... that's why I gave up on working out and drawing a good Star Trek map (long before the book came out). The galaxy is so huge it's hard for us to conceive of in our minds.
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
What I mean is, in order for there to be a main villain of the show, they have to use the ninth chevron, too.
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
Not necessarily... the Wraith can't use the eighth chevron, for example. (Not that they've been a spectacularly great villain, but they're not bad, IMO.)
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Maybe we'll see a return of Ra or Anubis: someone bright enough to follow the SG team from his time/alternate reality to escape his fate or just to start fresh without all those pesky rival system-lords.
Lord knows the super-hot Ori chick is a disapointing baddie...but man, I cant stop looking at her!